Horror Writer

Author: Amber

Spring, sometime in the late 1980s, just outside of Los Alamos, New Mexico: I wasn’t supposed to be there. I knew they didn’t particularly care if I was in asleep, or even in bed… but they didn’t like me hanging around at their dinner parties.…

There was an email that went around a few days ago congratulating various authors for being nominated for an award. It looked like this: I (obviously) got it, as did many of my author friends. I won’t spend time here dissecting it or telling you…

I’m a small press author. While I hope to one day make it to the big leagues, so to speak, right now I’m with a few different small presses, and that’s just fine by me. The majority of the presses I’ve worked with have been…

You’ll have to excuse the lack of pictures in this post. I spent most of the two days (which seemed to go by in about 26 seconds) I attended Scares That Care for running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Like most…

♪♫ Feed me all night long! ♫♪ Ahem. Ok, that’s enough musical interlude. Time to get down to brass tacks. The “feed” in the title isn’t so much a reference to Little Shop of Horrors as it is a reference to feedback, and in a…

Welcome back to IT COOKS! This is episode sixteen! I AM BACK! Woohoo! After a long (too long!) hiatus due to medical issues, It Cooks returns with Fruity Pebbles Cheesecake! This week’s sponsor is Subculture Corsets and Clothing. For the crust: 3 cups Fruity Pebbles™…

There are a lot of things out there that can help writers be more productive. As I work in tech during the day, I enjoy using tech to help me by night… err, not really night, but as a writer. Sometimes I write at night……

On the heels of my last post, and some quasi-related stuff I’ve seen around lately, I decided to step in with this: a handy guide to who, when, and how to ask for help as a newbie author. No, I’m not starting an advice column……

So there have been these… shall we say rumors?… going around for quite some time now about a secret organization of successful horror writers (referred to as “The Buddy System”) who act as gatekeepers for the genre, only to their own devious ends. They supposedly…

A submission call has been making it’s way around the internet this week. I’m not going to post it here for a few reasons: 1, I don’t think it would serve a useful purpose. 2, I don’t want anyone to think I condone this…